Knowledge graph-enhanced heterogeneous graph neural network for scientific talent innovation potential identification
摘要
Traditional talent evaluation methods predominantly rely on static bibliometric indicators that fail to capture the dynamic evolution patterns and potential innovative capabilities of researchers. This study proposes a novel knowledge graph-enhanced heterogeneous graph neural network framework for identifying innovation potential in scientific talents. The framework integrates multi-source heterogeneous academic data to construct a comprehensive knowledge graph encompassing researchers, publications, institutions, and research topics, while employing meta-path-based attention mechanisms to selectively aggregate information from diverse entity types and relationships. A gated fusion strategy adaptively combines semantic embeddings from knowledge graphs with structural features from academic networks, enabling comprehensive talent representation learning. Experimental validation on a dataset containing 128,456 researchers across multiple disciplines demonstrates superior performance, achieving 85.21% accuracy and 0.9014 AUC-ROC score, representing significant improvements of 6.3% over state-of-the-art baseline models. The proposed approach exhibits particular effectiveness in identifying early-career researchers with high innovation potential, addressing cold-start problems inherent in conventional evaluation systems. This research provides a generalizable methodology for knowledge-augmented graph representation learning and offers practical solutions for intelligent talent management in research institutions.